228: Christopher Tracy

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

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🗓️ 23 December 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Christopher Tracy is the winemaker and a partner at the Channing Daughters winery, on New York's Long Island.

Also in this episode, Erin Scala takes a look at the history of wine production in New York state.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Brotherhood winery in the Hudson Valley has been in continuous operation since 1839 and is one of the few American wineries to persevere through prohibition.
0:36.4	They even observed that the clergy population around the winery grew considerably
0:41.1	during prohibition. I wonder why.
0:45.7	A couple decades later, the first bonded winery in the U.S. was founded in 1860.
0:50.9	Pleasant Valley Wine Company from New York City, and they sold Sacramento
0:55.2	wine during prohibition to stay in business. And today, New York is one of the top
0:59.8	states in the US for grape volume production, most of which is conquered. About
1:04.9	65% of grape production goes to grape juice, and about 33% goes to wine. And of
1:11.0	all the wine, about 10 to 15 percent is vinifera production.
1:16.0	And vinifera production has been a hot topic in the state for quite some time.
1:20.0	Many producers used to think that vinifera could not grow in such a cold climate.
1:24.9	In the 50s, 60s, and 70s, Constantine Frank was a major voice in the industry who called for
1:30.4	more Vennifera plantings.
1:32.4	He had worked with Vennifera vines in some of the
1:34.2	coldest climates in today's Ukraine, and his veneifera activism in the U.S. impacted the entire
1:40.8	East Coast. In 1976, the Farm Winery Act
1:45.0	Winery Act made it much easier to set up a winery.
1:48.0	And after this act, we see a great increase in the number of wineries.
1:52.0	In 1976, we had 19 wineries in New York.
1:56.0	Today we have over 200.
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